CVE-2026-56258 PUBLISHED

Crawl4AI - Arbitrary File Write via output_path Symlink and TOCTOU

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 19.06.2026 Published: 23.06.2026 Updated: 23.06.2026

Crawl4AI before 0.8.8 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the screenshot and PDF endpoints that allows unauthenticated attackers to write files outside the intended directory via symlink and time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) attacks on the output_path parameter. Remote attackers can exploit insufficient path validation and symlink following to achieve arbitrary file write and potential code execution on systems where the runtime user has write access to executable or cron locations.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor Crawl4AI
Product Crawl4AI
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.8.8 (excl.)
  • Version 0.8.8 is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE